A prison beauty contest in Brazil, a 3-D-printed e-motorcycle in Germany, the state funeral of former President George H. W. Bush, a light show in Guangzhou, a successful rocket launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, SantaCon in New York City, “yellow vest” protests in Paris, a chili-eating contest in China, and much more
Photos of the Week: State Funeral, Mass Marriage, Krampus Parade
-
Davey Havok (left) and Jade Puget of the band AFI perform onstage during the KROQ Absolut Almost Acoustic Christmas at The Forum in Inglewood, California, on December 8, 2018. #
Emma McIntyre / Getty for KROQ / Entercom -
-
Police use tear gas against protesters after a demonstration in Athens on December 6, 2018, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of a teenager that sparked major riots in Greece in 2008. #
Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP / Getty -
-
Sarah Evander plays the role of Lucia as she leads a procession during a Swedish Sankta Lucia Festival of Light service at York Minster in York, England, on December 7, 2018. The Sankta Lucia service celebrates Saint Lucy, a young Sicilian girl martyred for her Christian faith in the early-fourth century. The service features a candlelit procession of choristers led by a young girl, as Lucia, wearing a crown of candles on her head and a red sash around her waist, symbolizing a halo and her martyrdom. #
Christopher Furlong / Getty -
-
Pakistani men wear traditional Sindhi caps as they gather to celebrate Sindhi Topi Ajrak Day in Karachi, Pakistan, on December 2, 2018. Thousands of people, including men, women, and children clad in cultural attire, poured onto the streets in dozens of rallies to mark the annual Sindhi-culture day. #
Rizwan Tabassum / AFP / Getty -
-
A Volkswagen T-Roc (right) and a Volkswagen T-Cross are presented at the storage-facility auto tower of the German carmaker Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany, on December 4, 2018. #
Tobias Schwarz / AFP / Getty -
The Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft carrying David Saint-Jacques of Canada, Oleg Kononenko of Russia, and Anne McClain of the United States blasts off to the International Space Station from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on December 3, 2018. #
Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters -
-
The Honduran immigrant Joel Mendez, 22, passes his eight-month-old son, Daniel, through a hole under the U.S. border wall to his partner, Yesenia Martinez, 24, who had already crossed, in Tijuana, Mexico, on December 7, 2018. Moments later, Martinez surrendered to waiting border guards while Mendez stayed behind in Tijuana to work, saying he feared he'd be deported if he crossed. #
Rebecca Blackwell / AP -
Josalyn Herrera walks in front of a section of the U.S. border wall painted in the colors of the American flag between poses during a photo session for her quinceañera, or 15th-birthday celebration, in Tijuana, Mexico, on December 8, 2018. #
Rebecca Blackwell / AP -
-
Workers assemble the pieces of a statue of Koroglu, a legendary Turkic hero, that was built in Kazakhstan then brought to Turkey in Bolu, Turkey, on December 5, 2018. #
Mehmet Emin Gurbuz / Anadolu Agency / Getty -
The British volunteer Paul Barton plays piano for sick, abused, retired, and rescued elephants in a sanctuary along the Thailand–Myanmar border in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, on December 9, 2018. Barton has been playing piano for elephants as a volunteer for almost 10 years. #
Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters -
Sully, the service dog of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush in his final months, lies in front of Bush's casket at the George H. Lewis & Sons funeral home in Houston, Texas, on December 3, 2018. #
Evan Sisley / Office of George H. W. Bush / Reuters -
-
Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush lies in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on December 3, 2018, in Washington, D.C. A World War II combat veteran, Bush served as a member of Congress from Texas, an ambassador to the United Nations, a director of the CIA, a vice president, and the 41st president of the United States. #
Morry Gash / Getty -
The flag-draped casket of former President George H. W. Bush arrives carried by a military honor guard during a state funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on December 5, 2018. #
Getty -
Former President George W. Bush touches the casket of his father, former President George H. W. Bush, at the state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on December 5, 2018. #
Getty -
-
The U.S. Navy ceremonial guard Hm2 Kenneth Knox stands over the flag-draped casket of former President George H. W. Bush as members of the public line up along the route to pay their respects as the train carrying Bush's body to his final resting place proceeds on December 6, 2018, in Texas. #
Joe Raedle / Getty -
-
The Ukrainian artist Olga Kosheleva wears a headpiece covered with painted sunglasses as she walks through Art Basel in Miami Beach, Florida, on December 5, 2018. More than 200 modern- and contemporary-art galleries from around the world are displaying artworks. #
Lynne Sladky / AP -
-
The designer Marco Mattia Cristofori of the German 3-D-printer manufacturer BigRep stands astride his nearly complete 3-D-printed e-motorcycle Nera at the airfield Tempelhof in Berlin, Germany, on December 3, 2018. #
Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters -
-
A man takes pictures of trees covered with hoarfrost and snow in a forest on the bank of the Yenisei River, where the air temperature was about –32 degrees Celsius (–25.6 degrees Fahrenheit), near the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on December 6, 2018. #
Ilya Naymushin / Reuters -
Miss Talavera Bruce 2017, Mayana Rosa Alves, waits to participate in the 13th-annual beauty contest at the Talavera Bruce penitentiary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 4, 2018. Jail authorities say they organize the contest to encourage self-esteem, fight idleness, and promote integration among women prisoners. #
Silvia Izquierdo / AP -
A health-care worker sprays a room during the funeral of Kavugho Cindi Dorcas, who is suspected of dying of Ebola, in Beni, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 9, 2018. #
Goran Tomasevic / Reuters -
We want to hear what you think about this article. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com.